DECISIVE

The DECISIVE project – A DECentralised management Scheme for Innovative Valorisation of urban biowastE – aims to help with the reform of urban waste management systems for our ever-growing cities and populations.

Project co-funded by the European Commission, under the Horizon 2020 programme.

Highlights

Partners are preparing the implementation of the two demonstration sites in Lyon (France) and Barcelona (Spain), during the first semester of 2019. Besides the technical preparation of bio-waste separation and collection, as well as the final specification for the micro anaerobic digestion plants, the involvement of local bio-waste producers has been tackled. ACR+ presented the report on theState-of-the-art of communication materials and incentive methods for improving biowaste. It examines existing guidelines and good practices on food waste prevention and sorting focusing on households and restaurants.

The upcoming “Decision Support Tool” (DST), aiming to simulate different bio-waste management scenarios and compare their performances, has been unveiled. It will be made public in early 2019.

THE PROJECT

This project aims to alter the current urban metabolism for organic matter, energy and biowaste, to a more circular economic model and to assess the impacts of these changes on the whole waste management cycle.

The project will thus contribute to change the management of urban organic material fluxes from a linear paradigm (import of goods without thoughtful interaction between external, peri- and intra-urban area, consumption, external disposal of waste) to a circular paradigm. It will help moving waste management towards a "Zero-Waste" strategy and to achieve the objectives of the European Resource Efficiency Roadmap.

ACTIVITIES

The objective of the DECISIVE project is to demonstrate the ability to decrease the generation of urban waste (from household or assimilated) and increase recycling and recovery by focusing efforts on decentralised management and valorisation of the organic fraction of waste, i.e. biowaste, in a short cycle.